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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 11. CITIES AND TOWNS

  § 11-29-202. Definitions.  

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  • As used in Sections 29-201 through 29-205 of this title:

    1.  “Volunteer firefighter” means a person who is enrolled as a member of a fire department and who serves in such capacity without receiving a regular salary.  A person who is a salaried public safety employee of a municipality shall not serve as a volunteer firefighter of a volunteer fire department unless the person is off duty and such service is not a condition of employment.  A public safety employee is a person employed to serve as a salaried firefighter, police or other law enforcement officer or emergency medical technician;

    2.  “Volunteer fire department” means a fire department which has in its employ not more than two full-time salaried firefighters; and

    3.  “Municipality” means a municipality which has qualified to participate in the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System.

Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 29-202, eff. July 1, 1978.  Amended by Laws 2003, c. 460, § 2, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2007, c. 356, § 1, emerg. eff. June 4, 2007.